Day 7 - training

Today's training was Skill Development for Kids.  It's a full day paid training session that focuses on safety and techniques on how to keep kids working on their skills through different games.  I was hoping the ice from yesterday was covered with artificial snow since the temperatures have dropped and the snow guns were blowing all night.  The conditions weren't the best, but the guns were doing their jobs and covering as much of the ice as fast as they could.  This year's training isn't as fun as in the past since there is no terrain to shred on but we made the most of it.  

My trainer was a guy named Jose.   I've had Jose many times for training and sessions last season.  He is from Quebec and sometimes I have a hard time understanding what he is saying as he has a strong french accent but he's great as a trainer.  He's a certified Park and Pipe Coach so he's always showing us different air tricks or surface tricks.  What's great is that he keeps the tricks within your level so he's not trying to get me to do a 360 off a jump or something crazy (what I would call crazy) like that.  Today we were practicing butters and 180 nose and tail rolls.  It didn't look like there were too many kids in Snowboard School so it was a good day to get paid to shred and train.  Back to work tomorrow though.......